AICTE to train students, faculty on cyber security, coronasafe internship programme

Under this programme, the authority aims to train five lakh students and faculty on cybersecurity and with Pupilfirst for the CoronaSafe internship programme.

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) introduced two programmes on Cyber Security and CoronaSafe internship programme. According to the official reports, AICTE launched the two programmes in collaboration with Cyberpeace on the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. Under this programme, the authority aims to train five lakh students and faculty on cybersecurity and with Pupilfirst for the CoronaSafe internship programme.

Talking about the introduced courses, Chairman of AICTE, Professor Anil D Sahasrabudhe said, "AICTE always works towards utilising the positive energy of youths in the Nation Building process. These two programmes which AICTE launched today will play a pivotal role in empowering youths of the country. The faculty members have to make the classes more interesting so as to ignite the power of creativity and lateral thinking of the students.”

Discussing the potentials of the youth and their proactive role in bringing out innovations in the country, Professor MP Poonia, Vice Chairman, AICTE stated,"On his birth anniversary, I would like to mention Swami Vivekananda's famous quote, and urge the students 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached."

To support the educational empowerment of the youth towards bringing out holistic development of the students and overall development of the society, Professor Rajive Kumar, Member Secretary, AICTE listed out several schemes and initiatives. The results of AICTE-Pupilfirst CoronaSafe Engineering Fellowship (Internship) Programme were also announced by the Hon’ble Chairman of AICTE, Professor Anil D Sahasrabudhe.

Sanjay Vijayakumar, Pupilfirst shared action points for selected students under AICTE-Pupilfirst CoronaSafe Engineering Fellowship (Internship) Programme. "It was a three-stage interview process that was designed to select India's brightest software engineering students. 24 candidates selected for the internship programme in the first phase" said Mr Vijayakumar.

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